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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

Trump Administration Ending Sanctions Against Russia One Piece at a Time

If we are to hold Iran accountable, it makes sense to play nice with Putin who is allied with Iran. At least for now and only to an extent. Same goes, and maybe more so, in wanting to work with Russia to dismantle ISIS. Priorities. Not coincidentally today, U.N. Secretary Haley let it be known that the U.S. does not support Russia's attacks on Ukraine and that the U.S. under Trump has no plans to be a pushover. All done in concert, all part of a larger plan. -W.E.

While psychopathic warmonger John McCain berates President Trump for
not sending in lethal arms to Ukraine to fight against the ‘Russian
influence’, the President on Thursday quietly dismantled one portion of
sanctions against the Eurasian power that had been imposed upon them by
former President Barack Obama.

Using the newly confirmed Secretary of State to execute the repeal of
parts of Obama’s Executive Orders directed at Russia, Rex Tillerson
ordered the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to
remove sanctions tied to “all transactions and activities” with
participation of the Russian Federal Security Service.

Just moments ago, when reporting on
the latest Putin comment involving the recent flaring up of violence in
Eastern Ukraine, we said that “the biggest question remains unanswered:
what side of the Ukraine-Russian conflict will the new US State
Department under Rex Tillerson side with, and will Trump slam the
alleged Russian violence as his predecessor was so quick to do on
virtually every single occasion.”We may have just gotten the answer, because moments ago the Treasury
Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, under Rex Tillerson,
posted a Russia-related general license notice on its website, according
to which US authorities eased sanctions against Russia’s Federal
Security Service – the successor agency to the USSR’s KGB – pertaining
to licenses and permits for information technology products in Russia.According to the license,
“all transactions and activities” with participation of the Russian
Federal Security Service, prohibited earlier by executive orders of the
US President, are authorized with certain exceptions. Also related to
“transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to comply with rules and
regulations administered by, and certain actions or investigations
involving, the FSB,” according to Treasury website. – Zerohedge

While this pullback of certain sanctions may on the surface appear to
be inconsequential, they signal to both Russia and he establishment
that President Trump intends to dismantle President Obama’s attempts to
foster Cold War 2.0 between Putin and the United States.